This is an analysis of the poem There Shall Be No Returns that begins with:
No one brought to them a 'gift' basket,
Filled with their own trials and tribulations....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABA cda bae adXXca ABA ddXXeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,6,3,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111000110 10111011010 01011 01001010 0010111 11011001 1100011110 00100101 0101101101 1101011101001 110110 11010110 010101100 01101 101010100 111000110 10111011010 01011 10110 111010 0101010 010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of There Shall Be No Returns;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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